Articles by Michael Bliss

How much barbed wire do we have in and around Leaside? Not much, you would say, and you’d be mostly right. We have no prisons, livestock farms, no trenches separated by No Man’s Land. No …more

Welcome home Leaside Life. We hope you enjoyed your March break, somewhere in the south. We missed you. Leaside has survived without you, though not without difficulty. In the month you did not publish no …more

We live in a Leaside teardown, and we don’t mind it a bit. In fact we might mind it it more if our house stopped being a teardown. We think our house is doomed when …more

Who are the happiest people you’ll see on the streets of Leaside? Right away we can rule out certain groups — everyone going to work, everyone coming home from work, and almost everyone at work …more

Recently we had the annual call from a realtor friend asking if we plan to sell our house this year. It’s about her 30th annual call and it always gets the same response: “No, never. …more